Earths Electrical Potential

See previous threads on CR4 regarding using large coils of copper wire wound around the earth (think basic magnetism theory).

I think it was a proposed school project (an impractical one I might add). Also threads on lightning storage, potential voltage difference over distance (height above ground), static energy as a power source (or storage), etc. All have been discussed to certain degrees and were shown to be totally impractical.

Question: Do YOU have any specific ideas you want to suggest or questions regarding electricity?

you were the only one to ask a follow up question, thank you. so static electricity is the force that causes a solar accretion disc to form larger clumps that eventually become planetoids which have gravity. at what point of mass accumalation does mass aquire gravity? a follow up question would be can static electricity be used to make a magnet and if so does it have polarity.

a follow up question would be can static electricity be used to make a magnet and if so does it have polarity.

My understanding of static electricity would seem to indicate that no you cannot. To create a magnet you need a magnetic field, static is (really simply) individual positive or negative charges, not a field. You can create an attraction or repelling force with static electricity on surfaces (+ve, +ve or -ve, -ve to repel or +ve, -ve to attract) but it is not a magnet force (as there is no field and no distinct poles).

at what point of mass accumalation does mass aquire gravity?

Put simply - gravity, is a natural phenomenon by which physical bodies attract with a force proportional to their mass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity

This means that any mass has its own gravity, just as any sized mass on earth weighs something (no matter how large or small). Obviously when you compare the gravitational effect of a golf ball to the gravitational effect of the earth the golf balls contribution is so small as to be insignificant (and hence ignored for simplicity in all but the most sensitive gravity-based calculations).

I didn't think a single atom had a gravity, just an electron field(s), if not how many atoms does it take to cause a mass of them to have a gravitational field

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Any mass creates a gravitational field (or curves space, depending on your view).

Re: a follow up question would be can static electricity be used to make a magnet and if so does it have polarity.

And: My understanding of static electricity would seem to indicate that no you cannot. To create a magnet you need a magnetic field, static is (really simply) individual positive or negative charges, not a field. You can create an attraction or repelling force with static electricity on surfaces (+ve, +ve or -ve, -ve to repel or +ve, -ve to attract) but it is not a magnet force (as there is no field and no distinct poles).

A moving electric field creates a magnetic field (and vice versa--a moving magnetic field creates an electric field). (And relativity makes this more confusing--so ignore that ;-)

If you can cause the source of static electricity to move (causing it's electric field to move), you will create a magnetic field.

As a test, you could take a balloon in a fairly dry environment, rub it on something to build up a static charge on the balloon, then move that balloon past a (fairly sensitive) compass needle.

Catch the lightnings

You should look into the works of Tesla.

I did, thus the questions. I suspect that the answer to energy independence lies in figuring out what Tesla did. a follow up breakthrough would be the development of an antigravity device, assuming we can get past pre-learned ideas on just what gravity is, present explanations seem to come up short.

Have a look at previous threads on CR4 regarding Tesla and antigravity as this has been discussed numerous times already.

rookie mistake, thanks. that's the trouble with not keeping ones imagination on a leash, it tends to roam randomly.